Mark Jonathan Harris
Mark Jonathan Harris (* 1941 ) is an American film producer , screenwriter and film director for documentaries, as well as a writer and journalist . His best-known works are Kindertransport - In einer Fremdwelt (2000) and Ins Gelobte Land (1997).
Life
Mark Jonathan Harris was born in 1941. After graduating from Harvard University , he began his career as a journalist for the City News Bureau of Chicago . Within a year he joined the Associated Press news and press agency and then entered the film business, making documentaries for King Broadcasting Co. in Portland and Seattle . In the 1960s he had his breakthrough with the short documentary film The Redwoods (1967), which was made for the Sierra Club . For him, he got Oscars in 1968 - as well as Trevor Greenwood - an Oscar . Other important films of the 1960s were Huelga! (1966) and The Foreigners (1968).
In 1973 Harris moved with his family to Los Angeles , California and turned back to journalism in parallel with filmmaking. He wrote a large number of articles for major magazines and newspapers such as TV Guide , American Heritage , The New York Times , Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post . He also started writing fiction . He has published five children's and youth novels that have won multiple awards.
In the following years he worked alternately as a journalist, author and filmmaker. Harris has made films such as The Homefront: America During World War II (1984) and In the Promised Land (1997), for which he received his second Oscar. Later he mainly only worked as a producer. This includes Darfur Now (2007).
Harris has been a professor in the Department of Cinema and Film Studies at the University of Southern California since 1983 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1967: The Redwoods
- 1997: Into the Promised Land ( The Long Way Home )
- 2000: Kindertransport - In a strange world ( Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport )
- 2007: Darfur Now
plant
- Solay . Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-02-742655-6 , pp. 137 (English).
- Come the morning . 2nd Edition. Wayne State Univ Pr, 1989, ISBN 0-8143-3241-2 , pp. 191 (English).
- Confessions of a Prime Time Kid . 1985 (English).
- The Last Run . William Morrow & Co, 1981, ISBN 0-688-00634-5 , pp. 160 (English).
- With a wave of the wall . 1980, ISBN 0-688-41920-8 (English).
- Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport . Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2001, ISBN 1-56731-714-6 , pp. 304 (English).
- The Long Way Home . 1997, OCLC 801215712 (English).
- The Homefront: America During World War II . 1984, ISBN 0-399-12899-9 (English).
Prizes and awards
- 1968 : Oscar for Best Documentary Short for The Redwoods
- 1998 : Oscar for Best Documentary for In the Promised Land
- 2001 : Oscar in the category Best Documentary for Kindertransport - In a Foreign World
- 2003: Nomination in the category Outstanding Writing for Non-Fiction Programming for Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
- 2003: Nomination in the category Outstanding Non-Fiction Series (Traditional) for The E! True Hollywood Story
- 1997 : Nomination in the Jury Grand Prize category - Best Documentary for Ins Gelobte Land
Web links
- Official website
- Biography of Mark Jonathan Harris
- Mark Jonathan Harris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Mark Jonathan Harris in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Jonathan Harris. University of South Carolina , accessed May 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Awards. In: IMDb . Amazon.com , accessed May 5, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harris, Mark Jonathan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer, screenwriter and director for documentaries and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |